These notes are from a story telling conference I attended. It is very useful information.
- Book: Brian Diol: leaping
- Planting community connections by Lora Smit
- We are keepers of story.
- People listen to stories to define us.
- At the detention center, you need to show yourself with boundaries. Show you can’t be scammed.
- Members of detention centers act nice.
- Hero’s journey has a meteor
- Once in door at an event be a person they can depend upon and cater your stories to the needs of your audience.
- Tell stories that are catered to the audience.
- Stephan slayer story: sights serpent by her choice.
- Princess who stood on her feet caters herself to under shine the prince. One girl heard a story and related it to her own life story. And realized she did things to please her boyfriend.
- Need stories that don’t trigger violence.
- Primary children’s hospital= arrange for kids to do something. Often can’t tell if a child is conscious but the story may be for the parent, not just the child. You can watch a monitor of a patient to note their response.
- Political story. possimbe and the snake.
- Each of us has hundreds of stories that people want to hear.
- Communicating has a neighborhood: cater to at risk kids. Kids may be wild at the beginning and then calm down as the teller keep coming. Kids learned to be still.
- Stories can help people get out of themselves and see the world.
- Huntsman cancer center: needs tellers then invites patients to write about their experience.
- Old stories that have been around for 2k and they still hold up today.
- Popular stories get modified like Hansel and Grettle or Cinderella.
- Old stories help maintain boundaries.
- The audience will come up to the teller and tell them how their story reminded them of something in their life.
- Stories can be used to teach.
- By the emphasis of what you do in your story tells what type of person you are.
- Seek out audience that needs stories.
- Bedside told a lot of brave kids stories.
- If the child is not awake, watch the monitor to see a reaction. Parents can relax in their chairs.
- Patients see you as a relief as you are not their mother or give them medicine or given a shot.
- If a child is disruptive but then calms down when you ask them if they want to hear another story.
- While you may not change the outcome of their lives, you can change that moment in their lives.
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